Why someone has to dethrone MS . . . but Linux???

[Andrew Brink]

And yet, if you were using debian....apt-get install samba and you would 
be ready to go.

Andrew

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:58:55AM -0500, Bradley Miller wrote:
> Ok -- Mandrake 7.2 . . . installed months ago on a PC.  I decide that it's
> stupid to keep swapping cables on printer when I have that box over there
> idle.  No problemo, I'll just install printer there, share it via Samba.
> ?? hours later and I'm at least able to see it on the freakin' network.
> Mandrake 7.2 didn't install Samba . . . no problem, oh wait -- in need
> inetd.  No problem, oh wait . . . I need python.  No problem, oh wait I
> need libgmp.so.2 . . . where the heck is that?  Oh finally -- it's on the
> gmp RPM.  (And gmp is not Gimp!!)   Finally after getting all my ducks in a
> row, I have Samba on that PC and at least talking on my network.   Now back
> to my printer issues . . . CUPS .  . oh ok, how does that work . . . I'm
> floored.   I'm tired and I'm beaten.   MS and the evil gates empire might
> not be the greatest, but damn.   Maybe my next PC will be a freakin' Mac
> with OS 10 . . . 
> 
> -- Bradley Miller
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